Apr 23 2011 Digital meeting with Javier Reverte at «elmundo.es»

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  Following the recent publication of his new travel book, "In wild seas. A trip to the Arctic", the writer Javier Reverte digital participate in a meeting with readers on Tuesday www.elmundo.es, 3 May, to 18:00 hours.

Following the recent publication of his new travel book, «In wild seas. A trip to the Arctic », the writer Javier Reverte digital participate in a meeting with readers on Tuesday www.elmundo.es, 3 May, to 18:00 hours.

Here's a summary of the new book provided by Plaza&Janes:

Title: In wild seas
A trip to the Arctic
Author: Javier Reverte
PVP: 22 €

A traveler review
In the summer of 2007 thaw first opened the legendary Northwest Passage, a Canadian northern sea route linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific through the Arctic waters. One year later, Javier Reverte found passage on a Russian research ship, pioneer in this route. In the course of thirteen days, witnessed the violence of those wild latitudes ocean surrounded by ice and extreme hardness and uprooting in which they live the few people in the northern regions, the "Inuit" in northern Canada.

Epic explorations of the past

This chronic traveler alternates with the history of exploration of past centuries, full of epic adventures, the tragedy of John Franklin, died with all his men in search of the Northwest Passage, or exploit the tenacious Roald Amundsen, the first explorer who managed to cross.

Climate change and energy spoliation

Reverte finally a picture emerges present nothing halagüeñode a region that is undergoing profound and rapid changes in climate, whose consequences will have serious political effects, economic and environmental. The race for the plunder of the Arctic has already begun: Russia, Canada, U.S., Norway and Denmark, take positions to try to control new shipping routes and vast mineral wealth, gas and oil, that can be exploited by the retreating ice.

This chronic traveler alternates with the history of exploration of past centuries, full of epic adventures

"In the wild seas" marks a new milestone in the literature of the undisputed master of the Spanish travel literature. Javier Reverte, Trilogy is the author of Africa (The dream of Africa, Wanderer in Africa and Africa's Missing Roads), Ulysses Heart (a journey through the lands of ancient Greece), Single ticket (anthology of travel stories), The river of desolation (a trip down the Amazon), Adventure travel (memories of several trips over her life) and The River of Light (a trip through Alaska and Canada).

He has also published successful novels, among other Central American Trilogy (The gods in the rain, The smell of incense and Man of War), All the world's dreams, The night arrested, The doctor of Ifni , Thy kingdom and Zero Quarter. Plaza y Janes has recently reissued two of his early novels: Lord Paco and Strawberry Fields Forever. In addition to prose, poetry has grown, and his book Traces of stowaway, published in the 2005, meets all your poems. He is also author of, “Dios, the Devil and the Adventure ", a biography of the Jesuit Pedro Páez Madrid, discovered the source of the Blue Nile.